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From: paulb@ttidcc.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: 65 MPH?
Message-ID: <152@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 11:59:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 11:59:35 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 20:47:50 EST
Reply-To: paulb@ttidcc.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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LA TIMES, 2/12/86 (excerpts):

The California Highway Patrol and Caltrans (California Department of
Transportation) recommended ... that the 55-mph sppeed limit be boosted
to 65 mph along hundreds of miles of the state freeway system outside
metropolitan areas.

The joint report ... asserted that accidents would not significantly
increase and that law enforcement personnel could focus more effort
on urban traffic problems...

...the average speed along rural stretches of I5 ... is 63 to 65 mph.
... people are already goin that fast...
We've told Congress we want to set our own limits...
...report also recommended that the federal formula for assesing whether
Cal. motorists are complying.. be softened.
...
...only 47% of the drivers like the speed limit as it stands...
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